Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Kelly at devilishdesigns is running a Christmas Challenge, and Day 3 is Presents.

So I just finished applying to the last of my grad schools. I just need to mail out a package with my physical application to the one school that wants physical copies and I'm done. I'm pretty behind in the challenge, what with the last minute rush of my applications, and the plus side to running late is that I got to see Kelly's design for
this day before I had painted mine yet. I adore what she did, you
should go check it out. Her presents really inspired mine.

I went with a bow colour that was the same as the background colour on the nail before so I could get a wide range of colours with a bit of order to them as well.

I traced the outlines of the bow with a black striper, but went with a
broken, sketched line rather than a careful traced line, I like the
movement it gives things, and I don't wrap my presents too neatly, so
why should I paint them that way?

There are a lot of colours used here, I'll list them all for you here:
Black: Kiss Black Striper
Yellow: Sally Hansen Lite
Blue: Sally Hansen Blu
Green: Wet 'n Wild SaGreena The Teenage Witch
Purple: Sally Hansen Cyber
Red: Sally Hansen Rapid Red and Cult Nails Charlatan over top for the background. (Rapid Red is the only red I own. Shocker, right? So since I wanted something shimmery I made it myself. Charlatan made things a bit more pink but I'm fine with what I ended up with.)

This day in the challenge has really gotten me psyched for Christmas! Are you excited?

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Kelly at devilishdesigns
is running a Christmas Challenge, and this is Day 2..

Candycanes!

Here is a closer shot for you. I like this, its pretty simple but I keep glancing down and smiling, I don't know.

I did this freehand. I considered taping but thinking about all that time waiting for everything to be 100% dry just made me want to pull out my hair, so I took a walk on the wild side. What can I say, I'm just crazy like that.

Right below this is my right hand, you can see that the lines are a little thicker and slightly more woobly, but good try left hand, good try. You didn't embarrass us or anything at least.

Back to my left hand though.

As for the polish I used, the white is Heaven White by Misa, and the pink/red is Sally Hansen's Hi-Res. The green is Sally Hansen's Hi-Def from the same HD set. Over top of it all I used Claire's glow in the dark nail polish, which is a surprise hit for me. I originally bought it just because, well, it was glow in the dark and that was awesome, but it has some great, subtle glitter in it and every time I see my nails glowing it really just tickles me, so I've grown to adore the stuff.

Shew, so that was a lot of pictures, but I had fun with this and the increasingly rare sun was out and shining when I wanted to take my pictures so I indulged. See you for the next day in this challenge!

Kelly at devilishdesigns is running a Christmas Challenge, and it sounds super fun so I'm excited to be participating. The first day in the challenge is snow flakes, hope you like it!

This is also my first post on the other side of the hellish end of term rush I just got through. Holy moly, I can't believe I'm free! Nothing to do! Well.. except for grad applications and Christmas shopping and post-end-of-term-desperately-needed-now house cleaning and planning to go home for the holidays and.. whoa. Anyways, at least I don't have anymore homework.

Day one of this challenge is snow flakes. I decided I wanted to go for snowflakes from afar rather than doing closeups of them, and I think I like the abstract-ish snowflake.

I didn't have this on for long though, since I needed to start the next challenge for the week, don't worry, I'll spread these out more next week.

You'll be getting another post later today probably with Day 2 of the challenge, what with me being so behind on this and all.Hope you liked this one!